The Small Voice, Still

The commission appointed by the White House to study the cloning of humans
took testimony from various religious leaders. Predictably, those opinions were
by no means uniform, although all the religious voices expressed reservations
about the practice.

One might think this was a textbook civics lesson. The nation is faced with
an extraordinary and unprecedented issue with unimaginable implications for
the future. It badly needs guidance. Historically, morality has been closely
linked to religion, and the various religions thus have much to say.

Not so, in the minds of some people, who appear to think that the religious
voice should be excluded from such deliberations. That appears to be the view
of the Harvard biologist Richard Lewontin, for example, writing in a recent
issue of the New Y . . .

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